Opera, the famous email browser, has introduced a beta version of its web3 crypto browser. The new beta version is more than just your average internet surfer. Along with features such as a built-in cryptocurrency wallet and shortcut for quickly switching between different crypto exchanges. They have also added decentralized apps support. Web3 Crypto Browser Opera Web3 crypto browser supports both cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It can function in an environment where digital currencies are accepted and store your funds securely for use on the web or when making transactions through NFC templates (Sony). Blockchain is a decentralized solution that reduces the need for third-party verification by providing trust in transactions through digital signatures. Furthermore, the blocks of this network are spread all over the internet, so it’s tough to hack. Related Reading | TA: Bitcoin Dives Below $40K, Why Bulls Could Struggle In Near Term Blockchain is the future. It’s been implemented and tested against major corporations that have seen its potential for revolutionizing their industry. The blockchain is like a security system to store and transmit data. It’s challenging for anyone else to view what you’re doing on this decentralized platform because all copies are identical, making it super safe. Nowadays, blockchain technology finds itself being used not only by those seeking anonymity but also transparency. Whether you’re an artist wanting domestic creatives’ rights protected. Web3 Browser Features The new Opera Web3 Crypto Browser allows you to explore the emerging world of decentralized web apps. Right now, it’s mostly an online home for crypto enthusiasts and strange blockchain applications with sometimes interesting tokens on them. The future of Web3 is here! With the Opera browser, you can now enjoy a decentralized internet where everything you do will be rewarded with tokens. This foundation for mass adoption has been developed by an innovative company that understands how important security and privacy are in today’s world-a place without those two essentials would surely lead us into chaos.” In an official announcement, Opera stated: “Too few of the web browsing experiences offered today have been built with the intention of putting Web3 centerstage and making blockchain technologies understandable and easy to use. With the Crypto Browser Project, we have set out to change this and starting today, we are inviting the blockchain community to join this mission. If we are to take Web3 beyond great ideas, we need to craft products that embrace both crypto enthusiasts who understand the space and those who are only starting and want to explore it. Our belief is that the world of blockchain needs a fully dedicated browsing experience.” The crypto browser is a new way to make trading cryptocurrency easy and seamless. It allows users who don’t want the hassle of third-party solutions like Coinbase or Bitstamp to trade their coins right from within opera without worrying about losing private keys on babysitting Platforms that are known for security holes. Crypto Corner is a unique browser extension in the Web3 crypto browser that contains the most topical and essential crypto news.So you never miss an update on new decentralized applications again. Blockchain Technology Future The Web3 project is not new. Do you remember The HTC Exodus 1 phone? It was an ambitious collaboration between many companies, including the well-known crypto wallet and Opera browser, but never saw completion. The future seems bright for blockchain and cryptocurrency. Some people think it will be one of the most critical networks in our digital world. Related Reading | TA: Ethereum Nosedives, Indicators Show Signs Of Larger Downtrend In contrast, others worry about its environmental impact or how quickly these technologies grow saturated with data storage capacity as they are currently doing now due to their popularity among users worldwide. It is too early to say that blockchain will never succeed. Technology still has many developing stages. We need time for its full potential to unfold before making any conclusions about whether or not this new invention can revolutionize the way we live our lives entirely. Web3 Crypto Browser Available Versions Try out this new browser that is so far available for Mac, Android, and Windows. The iOS version will be released soon. Featured image from Pixabay, chart from TradingView.com

Last week, Cardano network launched Pavia, a gaming application on the Metaverse. This stands as the first metaverse project operated on the Cardano blockchain. The use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which operate with the same blockchain technology as cryptocurrencies, is increasing. They enable investors to get tokenized assets of their favorite art items, idols, places, etc. NFTs create representations of both tangible and non-tangible items. According to its design, Pavia has about 100,000 land parcels issued. Each land parcel’s minting is a non-fungible token, NFT, that possesses individual coordinates. Related Reading | Bitcoin Millionaires Are Flocking To This North American Tax Haven. But What Do The Locals Think? The pre-selling of the parcels kick-off since 2021 with more than 60% done between October and November. Also, there is a rush for the remaining portions which will be on sale within the first quarter of 2022. The functionality of Pavia’s native token is as an in-game asset. An airdrop of Pavia’s native token was made to NFT landholders. This was after the blockchain’s snapshot in December 2021. According to data from MuesliSwap, a Cardano-based exchange, Pavia tokens are selling around 20 cents per coin at the press time. Also, it has a market cap of more than $107 million. Furthermore, Pavia landowners are more than 8,300. The data has it that the users were unable to deploy assets over their land on Monday. Caution documents from Pavia have warned customers that they can neither visit nor deploy content to the plots. This was due to the development stage of the land parcels. More Craving For Metaverse Projects On Cardano The emergence of Pavia on Cardano is during the period of incredible carvings for virtual parcels of land. Presently, the sale of virtual plots of land runs into millions of dollars on several blockchains such as Ethereum. The value for land plats on Pavia runs as huge as 30,000 Cardano on CNFT, the Cardano NFT marketplace. This amount is equivalent to about $45,600 at the press time. The Metaverse is recently getting more attention. It is a virtual world that provides people with unrestricted interactions like the real world. This distinguishing factor is its digitalization of operations. The functionality of the Metaverse is attracting several firms as they intend to create their appearance on the platform. One of the companies interested in the Metaverse includes Binance.US, developing on Portals, an office. Portals is a Solana-based metaverse project. Related Reading | Bitcoin Implied Volatility Plummets To Pre-Bull Market Levels: What This Means Also, Samsung, a global electronics maker, launched a metaverse brand of its New York City flagship store. This launching took place this January on Decentraland. Featured Image From Britannica and chart from TradingView.Com

Despite the recent fearful market, Bitcoin hodlers show diamond hands as coins aged 12-18 months touch a 2-year high. Coins Matured To 12-18 Months Revisit A High Not Seen Since 2 Years As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, BTC hodlers have held strong recently as coins aged 12-18 months have seen a sharp spike recently. The relevant on-chain indicator here is the Bitcoin Sum Coin Age (SCA) Distribution that shows the distribution of coins among the different holders in the market. The metric works by looking at each coin on the chain and measuring how many days it has been since it was last moved. Based on the age, these coins are put into different categories. For instance, if a coin has been sitting still since 12-18 months ago, it is included in the 12-18 months holder group. When the distribution of the long-term holders goes up, it means accumulation has been strong recently. Such a trend has usually been bullish for the price of Bitcoin as it shows a large number of holders refuse to sell at the current levels. On the other hand, when coins belonging to short-term holders move up, it means some long-term holders have decided to sell. This trend may be bearish for the price of the crypto. Related Reading | Bitcoin Millionaires Are Flocking To This North American Tax Haven. But What Do The Locals Think? Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the supply of coins that have matured to 12-18 months (one of the long-term holder groups): Looks like the value of the indicator has shot up recently | Source: CryptoQuant As you can see in the above graph, the coins aged 12-18 months have sharply rose recently, reaching a 2-year high. The highlighted region in the chart is around when these holders bought these coins. This means that these Bitcoin holders have now held strong through multiple all-time highs, the mini-bear period between May-July, as well as the recent fearful market. Related Reading | Bitcoin Implied Volatility Plummets To Pre-Bull Market Levels: What This Means Hodlers showing such diamond hands behavior can prove to be quite bullish for the price of the coin in the long term. Bitcoin Price Earlier today, Bitcoin’s price crashed below $40k, touching as low as $38k. Since then, the coin hasn’t recovered much yet. At the time of writing the crypto’s price floats around $38.8k, down 7% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the coin has lost 17% in value. The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days. After weeks of consolidation, BTC's price seems to have finally crashed below the $40k level | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com

Is your company ready to buy the Bitcoin dip? Saylor and Dorsey will give you the 411 for free.99. The MicroStrategy World annual conference goes live on February 1st. Learn directly from these two titans of the industry, who have definitely been among Bitcoin’s main proponents and promoters over the last few years.  Michael Saylor has led by example, buying every dip, and is a constant presence in mainstream media. His interviews are more like classes and the attention they get is outstanding. Jack Dorsey, for his part, left Twitter to focus on Bitcoin. Since then, his Block company announced several projects that’ll definitely strengthen the Bitcoin network. About the MicroStrategy World conference, the press release promises it’ll be “focused on Enterprise Analytics and Bitcoin for Corporations. World 2022 is 100% virtual, and—for the first time ever—access to all sections of the conference is free of charge.” That’s an unbeatable price. What Will Saylor And Dorsey Talk About? The conference has two sides, two different events that showcase MicroStrategy’s duality: “The Enterprise Analytics event will introduce bold new ways to think about analytics and business intelligence, and showcase organizations who’ve used data as a strategic differentiator. The Bitcoin for Corporations event will explore the various benefits of incorporating Bitcoin into corporate initiatives.” Join me and Keynote Presenter @jack at the 2nd Annual Bitcoin for Corporations Feb 1 & 2. This free, virtual conference is a must for any corporation considering integrating #Bitcoin with their products & services, or adding #BTC to their balance sheet.https://t.co/V9fIkv633q — Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) January 20, 2022 As you might expect, NewsBTC will focus on the second event. It’s important to say that both Dorsey and Saylor’s companies have Bitcoin on their balance sheet. These two put their money where their mouth is, and then some. In any case, what does MicroStrategy World promise? “An in-depth discussion on Bitcoin between two visionary voices: Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block, Inc., and Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy Inc. This session will be followed by a discussion on Bitcoin Treasury with Phong Le (President and CFO, MicroStrategy). Bitcoin for Corporations will also feature live interviews with industry experts from Coinbase, Deloitte, Fidelity Digital Assets, Genesis, Jefferies, NYDIG, Paxos, and Silvergate Bank.” It’s noteworthy that Fidelity Digital Assets recently shocked the world by predicting more countries and probably a Central Bank or two would add Bitcoin to their balance sheet in the next few years. Christine Sandler, Fidelity’s Head of Sales & Marketing, will represent the company at the conference.  Saylor ’s Recent Bitcoin History Since MicroStrategy first added Bitcoin to its balance sheet in August 2020, the company has increased the bet every few months. They issued common stock. They sold stocks. They bought, and bought, and bought, and bought. In a recent interview, Saylor explained the strategy and NewsBTC reported: “Look, our long term strategy is kind of like Harvard University. We’re running a university but we have an endowment. MicroStrategy is selling enterprise software. We generate $100 million in cash flow a year – in a good year – and we are reinvesting that cash in our endowment. Our endowment is 100% bitcoin.” Saylor adds that MicroStrategy plans to acquire and hold bitcoin as a balance sheet. As for the operations, the company will continue to sell its enterprise software everywhere in the world.” Related to this, about MicroStrategy’s free conference, Saylor said: “We have gained a wealth of experience and expertise innovating our treasury strategy and evolving our corporate bitcoin acquisition strategy. And we’re pleased to be in a position to share our knowledge—via this curated event—for corporations looking to pursue similar strategies and bold initiatives.” Dorsey’s Recent Bitcoin History For his part, Dorsey’s strategy is much different than Saylor’s. He’s working in infrastructure. Dorsey’s fortifying the network’s weak parts. Among other things, Block announced they’re building a decentralized Bitcoin exchange called tbDEX. Released the Lightning Development Kit. And announced they’re working in an open-source ASIC miner.  On a personal level, Dorsey and rapper Jay-Z put 500 BTC in a blind trust to promote Bitcoin development in Africa and India. And created the Bitcoin Defense Legal Fund to protect developers from all kinds of lawsuits. BTC price chart for 01/21/2022 on Gemini | Source: BTC/USD on TradingView.com The Price Of Bitcoin Despite Saylor’s and Dorsey’s efforts, Bitcoin is bleeding. On one hand, Proof-Of-Stake proponents straight up lied before U.S. Congress in a hearing about Proof-Of-Work’s environmental risks. On the other, there’s a rumor that Russia is considering banning Bitcoin in some capacity. Both of those situations caused panic in the market, and Bitcoin’s price is currently 40% lower than the ATH of $69K.  Will Michael Saylor buy the dip?  Featured Image: screenshot from the conference's website | Charts by TradingView

Bitcoin, the top asset in the industry has noted a sharp fall in prices over the last 24 hours. At press time, the king-coin depreciated by almost over 9.7%. Bitcoin dropped its value by almost $7,000 and was exchanging hands at $38,233.95. This marked an almost six-month low for the coin. This price level is the lowest ever since the first week of August last year. Following Bitcoin’s price action, altcoins followed suit as a majority of them were seen trading in the red at the time of writing. The global cryptocurrency market cap was at $1.95 trillion after a considerable fall of about 7.7% over the past day. The global crypto cap hadn’t dipped below the $2.11 Trillion mark in over 3 months now. This major plunge in value across the broader cryptocurrency market had caused roughly $200 Billion to leave the market. Ethereum, which is the second-largest cryptocurrency in regards to market capitalisation also registered a tumble of about 8% in the last 24 hours. Related Reading |TA: Bitcoin Dives Below $40K, Why Bulls Could Struggle In Near Term What Could Have Potentially Caused This Big Dump The bears had taken over the market, however, it isn’t safe to assume that the market would continue with a bearish outlook just yet. This could also be a price correction from which Bitcoin and major altcoins might recover over the upcoming trading sessions. This retracement in Bitcoin’s prices from $43,000 could have happened for a number of reasons. Needless to say, crypto markets are volatile, however, current price movements of the major cryptocurrencies can be tied to a couple of recent developments in the crypto space. This sudden substantial sell-off in prices could have been caused due to stock market weakness after the US Federal Reserve introduced high-interest rates and tapered the stimulus. The Fed hiking the interest rates in the form of tightening the overall monetary policy has, in turn, affected the unregulated market of cryptocurrencies. The cryptocurrency industry has also suffered the pangs of other recent regulatory measures. The most recent one is Russia’s blanket ban which has rocked the global cryptocurrency market. Other regulatory measures which have been set in motion to curb the rapid growth of digital asset has also had negative effects on the prices. Securities and Exchange Commission has signaled at scrutinising cryptocurrency exchanges. Environmental factors have also raised eyebrows of regulatory bodies, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) wishes for the EU to ban the proof-of-work model. All of the above-cited reasons have sent shock waves across the crypto industry causing the fear index to point at 19, a number that corresponds to “Extreme Fear” in the market. Related Reading | TA: Ethereum Nosedives, Indicators Show Signs of Larger Downtrend Bitcoin Price Analysis: Crucial Trading Levels to Watch Out For Bitcoin was priced at $38,233.95 after the coin nosedived close to 9% at press time. The asset flashed a death cross, which is considered to be extremely bearish in nature. The prices were beneath the 20-SMA line, indicating that sellers were responsible for driving the price momentum in the market. Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com The Relative Strength Index hurtled as it reflected the excessive selling pressure in the market. Currently, Bitcoin’s RSI was hovering beneath the 25-mark which meant that the asset was oversold and undervalued. The support level for the coin stood at $37,982.40 and a push from the bears could make BTC trade at that aforementioned level. The Average Directional Index was near the 50-mark, implying a strengthening of the current price trend in the market. The resistance price level for the coin was $39,829.16. Featured image from The Motley Fool, chart from TradingView.com

Crowdfunding has been around for some time now, and although it has been a hard time for some projects to gain funds, bitcoin could be the answer. Let’s look at the root of the troubles and how crypto could potentially address them. Related Reading | Downward DOGE: Descending Dogecoin Pattern Predicts Deadly Drop The In’s and Outs… Crowdfunding is a practice where you can donate money – including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and more cryptocurrencies – to projects, associations or people to develop ideas. It is a very powerful mechanism and tool for innovation and supporting social enterprises. Different platforms, such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have not taken their foot off the brakes; the web 2.0 crowdfunding movement, which has led to the creation of several billion-dollar tech startups, like Oculus, and raised millions of dollars for thousands of causes, is ripe for development. Crypto crowdfunding has the potential to be a network that connects people and their ideas. Today, crowdfunding is dramatically narrowed by its reliance on legacy finance, which limits the vast majority of the world from accessing it. Although this is good in theory, and has worked thus far, the major issue is the reliance on the legacy financial infrastructure, that is not only costly but globally fragmented. BTC: Bitcoin bouncing back after hitting all time high in November 2021. | BTC:USD tradingview.com Most crowdfunding platforms are only found in 30 countries. To date, the costs of operating crowdfunding in this network are very high, due to the many mediating third parties involved. The average crowdfunding platform charges a 7% fee per successful project. Could crypto’s aggressive transaction fees beat out traditional competitors? Crowdfunding & Crypto: A Pair Of Aces… Many platforms have had a hard time with the tight reliance of legacy financial infrastructure; this has made some crowdfunding platforms move over to the “web 3.0” model. One big example is Kickstarter, who has decided to move from its reliance on Stripe to creating its own crowdfunding protocol on other blockchains. This may make sense for equity-based crowdfunding, which can enable the platform and it’s users to invest in new companies and their ideas. A prime example of these worlds coming together was just last year with Bitcoin Smiles, which raised roughly 1.8 BTC. Bitcoin Smiles was an initiative aiming to raise funds and provide free dental care to impoverished people living in rural areas of El Salvador. Another project that can be used as an example is Kivéclair, a development project that educates people about bitcoin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Although these are only few examples of early crowdfunding in crypto, these do provide a valid source and hope that bitcoin can still rally through its community of caring bulls and bears. Related Reading | Bitcoin Millionaires Are Flocking To This North American Tax Haven. But What Do The Locals Think? Featured image from Pexels, Charts from TradingView.com The writer of this content is not associated or affiliated with any of the parties mentioned in this article. This is not financial advice.

Several regulators around the globe have taken a hostile approach around crypto exchanges and crypto-related companies by forbidding them to advertise the industry to the general public. However, Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao thinks this will not affect the high demand of the market. Curbing Crypto Ads Crypto-related firms have been accused by international regulators of marketing their services with misleading messages that undermine the risk digital assets investments could possess to users. Spain, U.k., and Singapore have banned the advertisement of crypto to different extents. In Singapore alone, crypto exchanges and other licensed companies can only publish ads on their own websites and mobile apps to avoid reaching the general public. The country’s ban includes “any form of advertisements or promotional materials in public areas such as Singapore public transport, public transport venues, broadcast media or periodical publications, third party websites, social media platforms, public events or roadshows.” “MAS stresses that DPT service providers should conduct themselves with the understanding that trading of DPTs is not suitable for the general public. These Guidelines set out MAS’ expectation that DPT service providers should not promote their DPT services to the general public in Singapore.“ Spain requires a pre-approval for any crypto advertisement directed towards an audience of 100,000 or more people and all ads and must include a warning like such: “Investments in crypto-assets are not regulated. They may not be appropriate for retail investors and the full amount invested may be lost.” In the U.K., authorities have banned several ads that they have claimed to be “irresponsible and took advantage of consumers’ inexperience or credulity.”  Related Reading | Fidelity Says What We’ve Been Thinking: Countries & Central Banks Will Buy BTC Why It Won’t Affect Price The price of cryptocurrencies is driven by demand and supply, meaning the interest users have in the market and the availability of each digital coin. For this reason, the effects that bans might have on the adoption of cryptocurrencies are believed to be important for the future of the market. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (also known as “CZ”) alleged during a CNBC International interview that the reason why regulators take this approach on advertisements is that the crypto industry has a huge demand. Even though the CEO thinks these bans could slow down the industry’s growth, CZ is not worried about the macro picture because he thinks the demand for crypto is so high that curbing crypto ads will have little impact. Changpeng Zhao claimed that most users are driven to the crypto industry through “word of mouth” marketing rather than ads. “Clampdown on crypto advertising is unlikely to have much of an effect on demand, as most of the crypto users come from word-of-mouth promotions anyway.” CZ noted that Facebook and Google opposed crypto ads for a long time and even though they are giant platforms that reign over the internet, this has not affected the adoption of digital assets. Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world and it recently withdrew its application to start a cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore after facing pressure from the country’s regulators over concerns of risks and consumer protection. The exchange, however, has not lost interest in conducting business in the country. The global regulatory framework is miles away from becoming clear, and Binance is working to adapt and comply, taking “strategic, commercial and developmental” considerations. CZ stated that Binance hasn’t driven its eyes away from Singapore for the country might change its regulatory framework later on. The future location of Binance headquarters remains a mystery. CZ said they are exploring “everywhere in the world.” The CEO noted that Binance is working with many authorities to help them build a comprehensive regulatory framework for the crypto market. Related Reading | Binance’s CZ Wants Entrepreneurs To Create Coins. Does His Argument Make Sense? Crypto Total Market Cap At the time of writing, the global market cap of cryptocurrencies sets its price at $1,8 trillion, showing a decline of %3 in the daily chart.